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Hey! I just moved into the area and was wondering if someone could help me interpret the local water report. I have brewed three batches so far here in town and have had haze issues that I have not experienced before. Also, I would like to get into making crisp tasting lagers as well. I put...

Around a year ago, I brewed a Festbier that I entered into a brew competition as a Munich Helles in Portland Oregon that got some solid constructive feedback. I had brewed the beer using a triple decoction mash inside of my tiny apartment at the time. I now have a slightly larger apartment, and...

Hey! I am excited to start in electric brewing, and I picked up a 3500W 240 V induction cooktop on Amazon with the intention of hooking it up into the dryer outlet next to the kitchen. I ordered some adapter cables on amazon to help me on my way, but I realized that I ordered an adapter cable...

As implied by the title, I have set out to brew a blended Gose (GOH-zeh). I want a beer that pleasantly tart, but not tooth enamel etching sour. I had a great success inspired by Berliner Weisse with a "sour saision" that involved pitching lacto prior to pitching yeast whose pH dropped down to...

Hey! I am looking to brew a 12 gallon batch of Festbier inside of my small apartment. It should be quite a challenge, but where is the fun without a bit if ingenuity? Lets go through some of my equipment first: 1, 40qt mash tun 1, ~7.5 Gallon Kettle 2, ~ 2.5 Gallon Pots Various Food...

Hey all! I was wanting to know what one could expect to see by adding lacto brevis to a beer with no hops after primary fermentation has completed. I have had great luck adding lacto to beer before primary fermentation and have had it reach its terminal PH of around 3.4 within a matter of...

Hey guys, I have been trying to learn more about how the mash works, so I read palmers website about the mash, but I am still left wanting to learn more. I want to know why is that long mashes tend to create more fermentable worts, why does mash thickness really matter for fermentability...

Hey! Anyone here entering into the Music City Brew Off? I just dropped off my entries into the competition today. Sour Saison Vienna Lager American Pale Ale Anyone want to sound off? :tank:

Hey all! Since I am still waiting for triple decoction vienna lager to.. well lager, I decided to brew a sour saison. :ban: I mashed 27 lbs of grain made up of 20 lbs of marris-otter/ us 2-row and 7 lbs of rye. I mashed it low and slow for two hours at 146 to make it as fermentable as...

Hey all! It's fall time so that means I have time to brew again, and for me that means Vienna Lager :D I made a thread earlier inquiring about how much color creation could I expect from performing a triple decoction mash on a grain bill that is supposed to nominally have an SRM of 5.6, so to...

Hey guys! I have figured that it's time to step up my game a bit! I have brewed a Vienna lager before with a partner that turned out great, with a single infusion mash and batch sparge, but now it's time to tackle the triple decotion! I was watching Northeren Brewerer's youtube video on...

Hey! I am trying my hand right now at crafting a session braggot, it should be a really fun brewing experience I hope and I think it has lots of room for brewing innovation! I am in the brain storming phase right now and I have thought about things that I want for certain in the finished...

Hey all! So last fall I invested in a chest freezer fermentation chamber which uses a stc1000 to regulate power to the freezer, and it has opened up some new doors for me. Namely, I now have the capability to make delicious lager bier... or so I thought! I got my score card back from a...

Hey, I had some free time off today and since I don't have a brewing set up anywhere close to my current location, I naturally started work on designing a new gadget :D. I am thinking about using an Arduino board along with the ever popular STC 1000 to measure fermentation temperatures and...

So, I have read some recipes on here talking about Kentucky Commons. I started thinking to myself that it would be really fun to try and make a beer that uses a bourbon grain bill along with a sour mash. I also thought about Berliner Weisse since it is a commonly brewed beer that can also be...

Hey guys! I have been brewing for about the past year and a half or so at this point, and something that I have always struggled with is head retention in my beers. They are all well carbonated, so there is indeed c02 to form the head, but after the head forms, it quickly falls apart. I have...

Hey Guys! I got in my first hop bulk order with my brew club and. I managed to get away with 1# of Citra, 1# of Saaz, .5# of Centennial, .5# of Cascade for 57$. With this abundance of hops, especially some of those famous C hops people keep talking about, what do you think I should take a...

Hey guys! I have been on here quite a bit lurking around, but I havn't been that active posting as much as i'd like, but I hope that will get to change now :) I want to brew in a week or two, my first American Amber Ale. I am looking for something that is sweet and malty, and just balanced by...

So, I have 2, 6 gallon carboys of Munich Helles sitting in my fermentation chamber lagering right now at a chilly 35F, that once bottled will have lagered for 52 days. I plan on adding some clearing agents in on February 22nd, 2 weeks before bottling, since I have 2 carboys, I have decided to...

Hey guys! I have had a few beers that I have brewed recently that have turned out quite a bit darker than what I would have expected they would. I don't know if maybe the malt I am using isnt the SRM I am calculating with or, if there is something going on with the water chemistry. I was...